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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Republicans Barely Won the House. Now Can They Run It? — A thin margin, ideological differences and competing pressures could make managing the “people's House” virtually impossible. But the G.O.P. majority, however slim, will still be a challenge for President Biden.
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New York Times:
Key Allies Are Inching Away From Trump — Early signs suggest he may struggle to win over Republican Party leaders for his third presidential bid, after a string of disappointments, but Donald Trump's staunchest voters are another matter. — ORLANDO, Fla. — Three billionaire donors …
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Yuval Levin / New York Times:
Democrats Lost the Midterms, Too — The surprising results of the midterm elections were understandably received by Democrats with an elated mix of relief and vindication. A president's party normally does much worse in his first midterms, and polls suggested this time would be no different.
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Washington Post:
Republicans narrowly win House, ending full Democratic control of Congress — The GOP takeover will end two years of one-party control on Capitol Hill — Republicans on Wednesday were projected to win back control of the U.S. House with a narrow majority, dealing a blow to President Biden …
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Washington Post:
Trump's early 2024 launch fails to rally GOP around him — The announcement is not immediately clearing the field as Trump hoped, but he has used party divisions to his advantage before — Former president Donald Trump has told associates and advisers that he wants his third White House bid …
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Molly Jong-Fast / Vanity Fair:
House of Horrors: The Marjorie Taylor Greene Congress Is Upon Us — Democrats beat midterms expectations, but still fell short of keeping the House. The chamber under Kevin McCarthy, and with an emboldened right flank, may “exist exclusively as a vessel state of MAGA nation,” Rep. Eric Swalwell tells Vanity Fair.
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CNN:
Inside the White House's months of prep-work for a GOP investigative onslaught — More than four months before voters handed Republicans control of the House of Representatives, top White House and Department of Homeland Security officials huddled in the Roosevelt Room to prepare for that very scenario.
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Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Republicans Gain Control of the House — With a victory in California, Republicans captured the 218 House seats required to take a narrow majority and frustrate President Biden's agenda. In Los Angeles, Karen Bass became the first woman elected as mayor of the nation's second-largest city.
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Benjamin Hart / New York Magazine:
The Pollster Who Predicted a Red Wave Explains Himself
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Andy Sullivan / Reuters:
Pence says he will not testify before U.S. House Jan. 6 panel
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Scott Wong / NBC News:
House Republicans plan investigations and possible impeachments with new majority
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New York Times:
Nonprofits With Ties to Democrats Plan Counteroffensive Against Congressional Investigations
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Politico:
Investigating the investigators: Dem strategists to launch counterpunch to House GOP
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David Rothkopf / The Daily Beast:
GOP Authoritarianism Isn't Going Away After the Midterms
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Michael R. Blood / Associated Press:
US House win by ex-combat pilot cements Republican control
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Brian Murphy / Washington Post:
Michael Gerson, Post columnist and Bush speechwriter on 9/11, dies at 58 — Mr. Gerson helped shape President George W. Bush's messaging after the 9/11 attacks and then moved to The Washington Post, where he wrote about politics and faith — Michael Gerson, a speechwriter for President George W. Bush …
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Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Saying goodbye to my child, the youngster — Michael Gerson, 58, died on Thursday. For 15 years beginning in 2007, he wrote a twice-weekly column for The Post — including this beautiful meditation, originally published on Aug. 19, 2013, on what it felt like to drop off his son at college.
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Michael Gerson followed his faith — and America was better for it — One of the biblical injunctions sometimes cited by Michael Gerson, who died Thursday at the age of 58 after a long battle with cancer, comes from the New Testament book of Colossians: “Let your conversation be always full of grace …
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
John Mearsheimer on Putin's Ambitions After Nine Months of War — The realist political scientist explains why Russia's move to annex four Ukrainian provinces isn't imperialism. — Back in February, a few days after Russia launched its war in Ukraine, I spoke with the political scientist John Mearsheimer.
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Ankush Khardori / New York Times:
Trump Faces Five Major Investigations. He Has Dozens of Ways Out. — Mr. Khardori is a lawyer and legal analyst. He spent several years as a prosecutor at the Department of Justice. Before he joined the federal government, he defended corporate clients against charges of fraud and other crimes.
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Tierney Sneed / CNN:
Trump's running for president again. Does that get him off the legal hook?
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Charles Lane / Washington Post:
At long last, Trump gives his concession speech
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New York Times:
Trump's Candidacy Is in Motion, but His Campaign Is a Work in Progress
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Bloomberg:
Trump Candidacy Will Complicate, But Not End, DOJ Investigations of Him
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Andrew Weissmann / Just Security:
Mar-a-Lago Model Prosecution Memo — This model prosecution memorandum (or “pros memo") assesses the potential charges against former President Donald Trump emanating from his handling of classified documents and other government records since leaving office on January 20, 2021.
Matt Egan / CNN:
First on CNN: ‘Greed and deception.’ Elizabeth Warren demands Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX turn over trove of records — New York CNN Business — Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Dick Durbin are demanding FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried hand over a trove of documents that will shed light …
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Tyler Kingkade / NBC News:
Moms for Liberty-backed school board members fire superintendent, ban critical race theory — The Berkeley County, South Carolina, school board made several big moves in its first meeting after the election. The board's former chair said it was a “political witch hunt.”
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Tara Palmeri / Puck:
Nancy Pelosi, Speaker Emeritus? — The longtime Democratic leader, a fixture of the House for decades, will step back into a chairman-like role in the minority rather than retire immediately, giving her time to manage her succession and ensure the stability of her caucus through the forthcoming McCarthy era.
Julia Wick / Los Angeles Times:
Karen Bass elected mayor, becoming first woman to lead L.A. — Rep. Karen Bass has defeated businessman Rick Caruso in the Los Angeles mayor's race, according to an Associated Press projection Wednesday, making her the first woman and second Black Angeleno elected to lead the city in its 241-year history.
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Shawn Hubler / New York Times:
Karen Bass Becomes First Woman Elected as Los Angeles Mayor
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Michael R. Blood / Associated Press:
LA elects US Rep Karen Bass mayor, first Black woman in post
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Shawna Mizelle / CNN:
GOP Arkansas governor says he's ‘very seriously’ considering 2024 presidential bid — Arkansas Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson is “very seriously” considering a 2024 presidential campaign, he told “CNN This Morning” on Thursday. — “Absolutely. I'm looking at it - looking at it very seriously.
CBS News:
Berkeley police sergeant placed on leave over alleged racist, derogatory texts — BERKELEY - A Berkeley police sergeant at the center of a texting scandal has been placed on administrative leave, city officials said Wednesday. — Sgt. Darren Kacalek, who has been on the Berkeley police …
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